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Not very long ago it was gravely suggested that certain stations on the Underground Metropolitan Railway, where the air is most sulphurous and the general conditions simply Stygian, were useful as sanatoria for convalescent railway porters and for those suffering from phthisis and “delicate chests.” It seems now that the …

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